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Angel of Ioren

Angel of Ioren

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I just needed to vent a little. I hate my office PC - it took twenty minutes to actually start working this morning, and that was after a second restart.
I just wish that they would understand that 512MB of RAM is not enough in 2010, but they refuse to even just spend some money to upgrade to 1 gig - that's all I need. Keep in mind, we're also running Windows XP - ugh.
At home I've been using OS X for 6 years, and it's hard to be on a Windows XP machine all day long. At least if I got a new PC with Windows 7 which is actually really good, I would be more content. Unfortunately, I do not see that happening anytime soon.

Anybody else in this predicament, where their office PC is terrible in comparison to what they have at home?
 
Angel of Ioren said:
I just needed to vent a little. I hate my office PC - it took twenty minutes to actually start working this morning, and that was after a second restart.
I just wish that they would understand that 512MB of RAM is not enough in 2010, but they refuse to even just spend some money to upgrade to 1 gig - that's all I need. Keep in mind, we're also running Windows XP - ugh.
At home I've been using OS X for 6 years, and it's hard to be on a Windows XP machine all day long. At least if I got a new PC with Windows 7 which is actually really good, I would be more content. Unfortunately, I do not see that happening anytime soon.

Anybody else in this predicament, where their office PC is terrible in comparison to what they have at home?
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The cheapest Mac ships with 2GB of RAM. The rest have four. I get by with eight on the desktop and four on the notebook.

I haven't considered an iPad. Maybe when I have money again. :)
 
My two year old iMac has 2GB of RAM, and Snow Leopard runs quite well. I don't see the university where I work switching to Macs anytime soon, at least not my department. My goal is to find a new job in a department that uses Macs or at least new PCs.
The iPad is very cool, but I don't have a need for it in my life. What I would pay money for though is a new iPod Touch that's built on the iPhone 4 platform. If that happens this September, I will be purchasing a new one. My iPod is the device I use the most in my day to day life. If it were to break, I would have to replace it right away. I just hope that doesn't happen before the new iPod comes out i.e September.
 
512 MB of ram works quite well--I even have a couple of test machines running win7 on a Dell optiplex gx630 (with only 512 Mb of RAM--no crashing or hanging for the most part) -- sounds like you need a "resource fix" --- delete temp files, remove unused or unimportant startup programs, run something like ccleaner ( CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download ) or some other cleaning\optimization utility. XP is actually a very stable and fast operating system with 512 when tuned properly--can't say the same about Vista or even (a better) win7.

Then of course there's always ubuntu linux...which should handle 512 (or even 256) marvelously and still keep all your goodies :)
 
I don't know what to tell you, but I have nothing running on my PC that I don't use for work. Remember, this is my work PC, so I can't just chose what anti-virus program I can run, etc. There are no startup programs running either. The only things running are Chrome, Outlook, MSN Messenger, and the Anti-Virus program, which is the bane of my workplace existence. All of those are required for work.
 
Angel of Ioren said:
I don't know what to tell you, but I have nothing running on my PC that I don't use for work. Remember, this is my work PC, so I can't just chose what anti-virus program I can run, etc. There are no startup programs running either. The only things running are Chrome, Outlook, MSN Messenger, and the Anti-Virus program, which is the bane of my workplace existence. All of those are required for work.
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Does MSN boot from Start menu? If so, I noticed that it tends to use a bit more resources that way. You could also try using Meebo to access Messenger through your browser.
 
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